YMMV / Velvet

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The football game in the middle of the fourth season.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Enrique and Marco may have done unethical things before. But having Pedro trash Ana's new space in exchange for money to pay for Rita's surgery went into criminal and illegal. However, Pedro confessed everything and was able to repair the damage, plus he returned the money and Ana paid for the surgery.
  • Cristina had assaulted Ana before—but she tried to hurt Ana and nobody else. When she set fire to Ana's signature burgundy dress rather than just cutting it up, she could have easily destroyed the store and the employees who resided in it!!!.
• Strangled by the Red String: Played with Blanca and Emilio—in Galerias Velvet, they are not a couple, but by the time the Spin-Off Coleccion Velvet takes place a few years later, they are married. Subverted with Raul and Humberto: the latter propositions the first for a business deal by holding his hand, but Raul seems businesslike enough to leave it ambiguous to the viewers and other characters.
• Strawman Has a Point:
  • When Ana finds out that Alberto is still alive and returning to Spain, she cancels her wedding to Carlos. He asks, "Where was the father of your son while I was raising him next to you?". The audience is supposed to sympathize with Ana for still loving Alberto even though she thought he was deceased. And although Carlos hid Alberto's letters, there were other ways for Alberto to get in touch with his other friends which would have surely revealed he was still alive. Later Cristina brings up the same to Alberto where she points out he could have done a better job of staying in touch.
• Values Dissonance: A lot of characters smoke. Nobody seems to be disgusted or repulsed in the least bit about this.
  • Since this takes place in Francoist Spain, none of the women who work at Galerias Velvet ever wear pants. Had this series taken place in the USA or UK during the same time period, women would have occasionally worn pants or flat shoes for casual wear. Sara Oretga is the only woman who wears pants and it's portrayed as very eyebrow-raising, especially since it's part of a masculine-inspired business suit. After the 5 year time skip, Clara is the only female character who regularly wears pants, but even so, she is never seen in jeans or chinos.
  • In season 4, Patricia's inheritance of Valentin's estate is threatened when the estate lawyer warns that if they discover evidence of infidelity on her part, she will not only not inherit anything, but she could be jailed for adultery. It's easy to forget, given that much of Velvet centers on the forbidden love affair between the married Alberto and Ana, that Francoist Spain was very conservative and women found guilty of adultery could be jailed or worse. Of course, there was a Double Standard that men who committed adultery did not face the same consequences.